TIN HOUSE POETRY CATALOG NEW TITLES & ESSENTIAL BACKLIST

2021 Contents

All The Names Given...... 1 My Darling from the Lions...... 2 Superdoom: Selected Poems...... 3 Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night...... 4 The Perseverance...... 5 Negotiations...... 6 Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution...... 7 Anodyne...... 8 My Baby First Birthday...... 9 Good Boys...... 10 A Sand Book...... 11 Feed...... 12 A Fortune for Your Disaster...... 13 Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself...... 14 Magical Negro...... 15 When Rap Spoke Straight to God...... 16 Junk...... 17 The Möbius Strip Club of Grief...... 18 Nature Poem...... 19 There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé...... 20 Last Sext...... 21 Someone Else’s Wedding Vows...... 22 Portuguese...... 23

Contact and Distribution Information...... 24 1 A powerful and deeply personal collection of poems from the award- winning author of The Perseverance All The Names Given by RAYMOND ANTROBUS n the heels of his much-lauded debut Ocollection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscom- munication, place, and memory in All The Names Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. The collection opens with poems about the author’s surname—one that shouldn’t have sur- vived into modernity—and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space in which the poet reckons with his own an- cestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The poems travel through space—shifting fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and the American South—and brilliantly move from an examination of family history into the wander- ing lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a complex array of marriage poems—matured, wiser, US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 and more accepting of love’s fragility. Throughout, ISBN 978-1-951142-92-6 · 6" x 9" · 62 pages All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption ON SALE NOVEMBER 9, 2021 Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, in which the art of writing cap- tions attempts to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems as well as moments inside and RAYMOND ANTROBUS outside of them. was born in London to an Formally sophisticated, with a weighty English mother and Jamaican perception and startling directness, All The Names father. He was awarded the Given is a timely, tender book full of humanity and 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, remembrance from one of the most important judged by Ocean Vuong, Sunday young poets of our generation. as well as the 2019 Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, among oth- ers. Raymond is currently based between London and Oklahoma City. 2 “Rachel Long is an enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.” My Darling from —BERNARDINE EVARISTO the Lions NAMED A BEST POETRY BOOK by RACHEL LONG OF 2020 BY THE GUARDIAN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, COSTA POETRY AWARD, AND THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION

ach poem in Rachel Long’s award-winning EMy Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell—of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening—stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically con- scious, wise, funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it’s a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, girlhood, and Barbie doll men in fast cars; a book about femininity, di- vinity, familial shame, Black identity, and modern culture. US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 Long reveals herself as a razor-sharp and ISBN 978-1-951142-71-1 · 6" x 9" · 87 pages original voice on the issues of sexual politics and ON SALE SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 cultural inheritance that polarize our current moment. With a fresh commitment to the power of the individual poem, her collection offers immediate, wide-awake poetry that entertains royally, without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill. My Darling from the Lions marks the arrival of a RACHEL LONG is a poet and the founder of Octavia thrilling new voice and presence in poetry. Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, which is housed at Southbank Centre in London. My Darling from the Lions, first published by Picador in 2020, is her debut collection. She was born in London, and resides there today. 3 From the acclaimed author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and So Sad Today, Superdoom showcases Broder as one of the most Superdoom: original and audacious poets working today. Selected Poems by MELISSA BRODER

eaturing a new introduction from the author, FSuperdoom: Selected Poems brings together the best of Melissa Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections—When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone—as well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext. Embracing the sacred and the profane, often simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and at the human body, with humor and heartbreak, lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her own, marked both by brutal strangeness and raw intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bounc- ing between the grotesque and the transcendent, Superdoom is a must-have for longtime fans and the perfect introduction to one of our most bril- liant and original poets.

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MELISSA BRODER is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay col- lection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles. 4 OTHER PEOPLE’S COMFORT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT—THE BOOK THAT Other People’s LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT YOUNG Comfort Keeps Me AMERICAN POETS—IS BACK IN PRINT Up at Night WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY by MORGAN PARKER DANEZ SMITH. “Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples with energy, insight, and searing music.” —TRACY K. SMITH

he debut collection from award-winning Tpoet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she’s become one of the most beloved writers working today. Her command of language is on full display. Parker bobs and weaves between humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-Z, The New York school and reality television. She collapses any foolish dis- tinctions between the personal and the political, the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an essential new voice to the world, it contains eve- rything readers have come to love about Morgan Parker’s work. US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 ISBN 978-1-951142-56-8 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 120 pages ON SALE JULY 13, 2021

MORGAN PARKER is a poet, essayist, and novel- ist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsper- son” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” 5 A POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE GUARDIAN,THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND POETRY SCHOOL The Perseverance by RAYMOND ANTROBUS WINNER OF THE TED HUGHES AWARD, THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, AND THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD; SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

"This book is a gift, for how it repurposes my understanding of treacherous feelings, and shapes them into something worth sticking around for.” —HANIF ABDURRAQIB

n the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in IRaymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance travels to Gaudí’s cathedral in Barcelona. Ruminating on the idea of silence and sound, he wonders whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. “Even though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless ISBN 978-1-951142-42-1 · 6" x 9" · 96 pages / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and ON SALE MARCH 30, 2021 I am able to answer.” So begins a stunning exami- nation of a D/deaf experience alongside medita- tions on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. With a global scope and a deep intimacy, Antrobus draws on family and historical figures to create a chorus of voices: on the page, in RAYMOND ANTROBUS was our mouths, in our hands and ears. born in London to an English The Perseverance is a book about communi- mother and Jamaican father. He was awarded the 2017 cation and connection, about cultural inherit- Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, judged ance, about identity in a hearing world that takes by Ocean Vuong, as well as the everything for granted, about the dangers we may 2019 Sunday Times/University find—both individually and as a society—if we fail of Warwick Young Writer of to understand each other. the Year Award. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, among others. Raymond is currently based between London and Oklahoma City. 6 “An intimate, stunning collection.” Negotiations —JAQUIRA DÍAZ by DESTINY O. BIRDSONG “Scalding and tender.” —DONIKA KELLY

hat makes a self? In her remarkable W debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this ques- tion. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoim- mune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appro- priation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 narrative and a black box warning for a particular ISBN 978-1-951142-13-1 · 6" x 9" · 152 pages kind of self-healing that requires recognizing ON SALE NOW culpability when and where it exists.

DESTINY O. BIRDSONG is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and MacDowell, and won the Academy of American Poets Prize, Naugatuck River Review’s 2016 Narrative Poetry Contest, and Meridian’s 2017 “Borders” Contest in Poetry. She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University, and now lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. 7 “To read through these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” Resistencia: —from the introduction by Poems of Protest JULIA ALVAREZ and Revolution edited by MARK EISNER and TINA ESCAJA ith a powerful and poignant introduc- W tion from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraor- dinary collection, rooted in a strong tradi- tion of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American coun- try grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of transla- tion as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young, emerging talent, have made many of the poems US $18.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $24.95 available for the first time to an English-speaking ISBN 978-1-951142-07-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 264 pages ON SALE NOW audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essen- tial, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of MARK EISNER 's latest work, Neruda: The Biography of a tyranny and oppression. Poet, was named a finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography. Eisner also conceived of, edited, and was one of the principal translators for City Lights’ The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. Eisner was also involved in the early stages of the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, and continues to lead Red Poppy, a literary nonprofit focused on Latin American poetry. TINA ESCAJA is a Spanish American author, digital artist, and distinguished professor at the University of Vermont. As a literary critic, she has published extensively on gender and contemporary Latin American and Spanish poetry and technol- ogy. Considered a pioneer in electronic literature, Escaja’s creative work transcends the traditional book format, leaping into digital art, robotics, augmented reality, and multimedia projects exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. 8

“Brilliant.” Anodyne —ILYA KAMINSKY by KHADIJAH QUEEN

he poems that make up Anodyne consider Tthe small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowl- edge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure—all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experi- ence of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combina- tion of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 uplift and unsettle, Queen’s poems show us the ISBN 978-1-947793-80-4 · 6" x 9" · 104 pages terrible consequences and stunning miracles of ON SALE NOW how we choose to live.

KHADIJAH QUEEN is the author of Conduit, Black Peculiar, Fearful Beloved, Non-Sequitur, and I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Balcones Poetry Prize, and the CLMP Firecracker award in Fiction, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at University of Colorado at Boulder, and serves as core faculty for the low-residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. 9 FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF SOUR HEART My Baby “All-consuming anger had me devouring this book in one sitting. And the book First Birthday devoured me. We burned together.” by JENNY ZHANG —MITSKI

adiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday R is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’ wombs that we’re still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems ex- plore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a ISBN 978-1-947793-81-1 · 6" x 9" · 208 pages ON SALE NOW lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something— skin to skin, animal to animal. JENNY ZHANG was born in Shanghai and grew up in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and the story collection Sour Heart. 10

“Ferocious.” Good Boys —KAVEH AKBAR by MEGAN FERNANDES

n an era of rising nationalism and geopoliti- Ical instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian Ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoreti- cal and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydro- ISBN 978-1-947793-40-8 · 6" x 9" · 128 pages gen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these ON SALE NOW poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy. MEGAN FERNANDES is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank, The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. 11 WINNER OF THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY PRIZE A Sand Book LONGLISTED FOR THE by ARIANA REINES 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

“Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention.” —DIANA ARTERIAN, The New York Times Book Review

Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve A parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre US $17.95 · Paperback · CAN $23.95 at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards ISBN 978-1-951142-16-2 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 416 pages of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, ON SALE NOW from Attar’s “Conference of the Birds” to Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls” to Twitter, A Sand Book is about change and quantifica- tion, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between ARIANA REINES Named one of Flavorwire’s 100 Most geological upheaval and the weird weather of Important Living Writers and “a the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to crucial voice of her generation” Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious by Michael Silverblatt, Ariana work to date, but also her most visceral and Reines is a poet, Obie-winning satisfying. playwright, and performing artist. Her books include A Sand Book (Tin House 2019), the play Telephone (Wonder 2018), The Origin Of The World (Semiotext(e)) for the Whitney Biennial 2014), Mercury (Fence 2011), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar 2007, Fence 2011), and The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence 2006). 12 A NEW YORK TIMES Feed NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR by TOMMY PICO From the winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico’s Feed is the final book in the Teebs Cycle.

eed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetral- Fogy. It’s an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York’s High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park’s cultivated gardens of wildness. Among the questions Feed asks: What’s the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac n cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amid the mess, it knows where it’s going.

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TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed (Tin House Books, November 2019) completes the Teebs te- tralogy. He's been the recipi- ent of awards and fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA. 13 WINNER OF THE LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE A Fortune for WINNER OF THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD Your Disaster by HANIF ABDURRAQIB “The fast-rising Ohio music journalist’s second book of poems imports characters from, and jokes about, pop, rap, rock, and soul . . . to animate his corrosively serious, hard-to-forget lines about love, sex, hypocrisy, self-discovery, power, grief, and violence.” —STEPHANIE BURT, The New York Times Book Review

n his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown IAin’t Worth Much, poet, essayist, music critic, and New York Times bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It’s a book US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 about a mother’s death, and finally admitting that ISBN 978-1-947793-43-9 · 7 ½" x 9" · 120 pages Michael Jordan pushed off in the ’98 finals. It’s ON SALE NOW about forgiveness, and how none of the author’s black friends wanted to listen to “Don’t Stop Believin’.” It’s about wrestling with histories, per- sonal and shared, and how black people can write HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a about flowers at a time like this. Abdurraqib writes poet, essayist, and cultural critic across different tones and registers, with humor from Columbus, Ohio. His first and sadness, and uses touchstones from the world poetry collection, The Crown outside—from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his Ain’t Worth Much, was named a neighbor’s dogs—to create a mirror, inside of which finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and was nominated every angle presents a new possibility. for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays,They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a best book of 2017 by BuzzFeed; Esquire; NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Pitchfork, among others. His next book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award. In 2021, he will release the book A Little Devil in America. 14 Whitman’s most beloved poem, “Song of Myself,” illustrated, illuminated, and Whitman presented like never before. Illuminated: Song of Myself by ALLEN CRAWFORD alt Whitman’s iconic collection of po- Wems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a repu- tation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So it’s only appropriate that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate—like medieval monks with their own holy scriptures— Whitman’s masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, “Song of Myself.” Crawford has turned the original sixty-page poem from Whitman’s 1855 edition into a sprawl- ing 234-page work of art, available now in its second Tin House edition with a new cover in celebration of Whitman’s 200th birthday. The handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that’s both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem—they’re exu - berant, rough, and wild. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is a sensational reading experi- ence, an artifact in its own right, and a master - ful tribute to the Good Gray Poet.

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ALLEN CRAWFORD is an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer. Allen’s award- winning book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is an illustrated, hand- lettered, 256-page edition of Walt Whitman’s epic poem. Allen and his work have appeared in Communication Arts, American Illustration, Type Directors Club, Print, Applied Arts, The New York Times, Interview, Orion, Frieze, Vice, Tin House, and Art in America. He lives in a small Quaker town in central New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. 15 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS Magical Negro CIRCLE POETRY AWARD by MORGAN PARKER WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD

From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.

agical Negro is an archive of black every- Mdayness; a catalog of contemporary folk heroes; an ethnography of ancestral grief; an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. These poems connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and trou- bling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Blending depictions of black womanhood with US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 personal narratives, the collection tackles interior ISBN 978-1-947793-18-7· 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 95 pages ON SALE NOW and exterior politics—of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experi- ence. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out pat- terns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties MORGAN PARKER is a poet, essayist, and novel- situated as firmly in the past as in the present— ist. She is the author of the timeless black melancholies and triumphs. young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic crafts- person” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” 16 “Erica Dawson has expanded the When Rap possibilities of what we think poetry can do.” Spoke Straight —JERICHO BROWN to God by ERICA DAWSON hen Rap Spoke Straight to God isn’t sacred or W profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There’s Wu- Tang and Mary Magdalene with a foot fetish, Lil’ Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures—this book-length poem con- fronts the tragedies of Trump, black lives, belief, and the boundaries of being a woman. Both grounded and transcendent, the book is reality and possibility. Sometimes abrasive and often abraded, Dawson doesn’t flinch. A mix of traditional forms where son- nets mash up with sestinas morphing to heroic couplets, When Rap Spoke Straight to God insists that while you may recognize parts of the poem’s world, you can’t anticipate how it will evolve. With a literal exodus of light in the book’s final moments,When Rap Spoke Straight to God is a lament for and a celebration of blackness. It’s never depression; it’s defiance—a persistent resistance. In this book, like Wu-Tang says, the marginalized “ain’t nothing to fuck with.” US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 ISBN 978-1-947793-03-3 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 64 pages ON SALE NOW

ERICA DAWSON is the au- thor of two previous collections of poetry: The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize, and Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street; Bennington Review; three editions of Best American Poetry; Crazyhorse; Harvard Review; Life: 50 Poems Now; The Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses; Rebellion; Resistance; Virginia Quarterly Review; and numerous other journals and antholo- gies. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and is an associate professor at University of Tampa, where she also directs the low-residency MFA program. 17 “A true American odyssey, complete with a reluctant hero who defies all odds to survive. . . . This is poetry of the Junk highest order.” by TOMMY PICO —JENNY ZHANG

he third book in Tommy Pico’s Teebs te- Ttralogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab on to for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing political landscape? In part taking its cue from A. R. Ammons’s Garbage, Teebs names this liminal space “Junk,” in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things waiting for their next use; different items that collectively become indistinct. But can there be a comfort outside the anxiety of utility? An ap- US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 preciation of “being” for the sake of being? And ISBN 978-1-941040-97-3 · 6" x 9" · 80 pages will there be Chili Cheese Fritos? ON SALE NOW

TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed (Tin House Books, November 2019) completes the Teebs tetralogy. He's been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA. 18 “Many poets have attempted to imagine the afterlife, and Stone’s addition to the The Möbius Strip tradition disrupts it in the best way: she is our Virgilian guide through a wildly Club of Grief conceived purgatorial landscape.” by BIANCA STONE —THE PARIS REVIEW

he Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection Tof poems that weave in and out of a bur- lesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly, with both money and conscience—to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes. I’ll hold your hand in my own,” one ghost says. “I’ll tell you you were good to me.” Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limbo where women run the show and create a space to navigate the difficulties endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother Ruth Stone’s poem “The Möbius Strip of Grief,” Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way to confront and investigate complicated family relationships in the hopes of breaking the never- ending cycle of grief. US $15.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $21.95 ISBN 978-1-941040-85-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 96 pages ON SALE NOW

BIANCA STONE is the au- thor of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014), and Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (Pleiades Press, 2014). She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont. 19 A book-length poem about how an American Indian (or NDN) writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced Nature Poem to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, by TOMMY PICO manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.

ature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, NAmerican Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punch- lines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confront- ing the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the US $14.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $19.95 “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to ISBN 978-1-941040-63-8 · 6" x 9" · 136 pages mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs ON SALE NOW gradually learns how to interpret constella- tions through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is IRL he learns how to have faith in his own voice. the author of the books , Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed (Tin House Books, November 2019) completes the Teebs tetralogy. He's been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA. 20 “This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and There Are More forward-thinking literary star.” Beautiful Things —TERRANCE HAYES Than Beyoncé by MORGAN PARKER he only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé T is God, and God is a black woman sip- ping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to sur- vive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-in- dictments and déjà vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.

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MORGAN PARKER is a poet, essayist, and novel- ist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic crafts- person” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” 21 “The poems of Melissa Broder pull off a strange and compelling trick: to exist meatily, viscerally, and even bloodily at Last Sext the center of a void. Holes thump through by MELISSA BRODER the pages, blankness crunches bone, zeros growl with hunger. Each line is a little heartbeat hurling down the abyss.” —PATRICIA LOCKWOOD

n her electric fourth collection, Melissa IBroder penetrates the itch of existence and explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of self, the bereavement of love, the destruction of fantasy, the transmutation, even, of our ideas of dying. What emerges is an infinite series of false endings—each a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark, as Broder’s fans have come to love.

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MELISSA BRODER is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay col- lection So Sad Today, and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle. com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles. 22 “Bianca Stone’s poems are powerful, moving, and original. . . . We’re in the presence of a Someone Else’s naked human voice, not concealing itself—or overreaching to expose itself—which dives as Wedding Vows deep as voices go.” by BIANCA STONE —SHARON OLDS

omeone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the Sdifferent forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destruc- tive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and aliena- tion of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psycho- logical, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing to- wards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and US $14.95 · Paper Trade Original · CAN $19.95 translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a ISBN 978-1-935639-74-9 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 96 pages ON SALE NOW bittersweet question this book raises: Why are we like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.

BIANCA STONE is the au- thor of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014), and Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (Pleiades Press, 2014). She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont. 23 “Brandon's restlessness translates into disruptive, migratory syntax that defies identity, its logic.” Portuguese —DON MEE CHOI by BRANDON SHIMODA

he poems in Portuguese began while TBrandon rode city buses around Seattle, and were inspired by his fellow passengers. At the same time, they began as responses to the words and writings of visual artists, mostly painters, whom Brandon was reading while riding the bus, especially Etel Adnan, Eugène Delacroix, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, and Joan Mitchell, all of whom appear in the book. Portuguese owes also a debt to a visit to Beirut, Lebanon (2009); six months spent in a cabin in the woods of western Maine (2010-2011); and the Japanese poets Kazuko Shiraishi, Ryuichi Tamura and Minoru Yoshioka, and their translators. Throughout writing the poems that be- came Portuguese, the presiding struggle was with poetry itself—the form and its impulses—voice and mind, face and body, exuberance and in- US $14.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $19.95 firmity—as well as with the act of writing. The ISBN 978-1-935639-51-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 128 pages ON SALE NOW book actually began in the early 1980s, while on the bus to elementary school in a small town in New England, when Brandon was taunted for being “Portuguese.” In that sense, Portuguese re- turns its author to this moment in which he felt challenged to become what he was being called, however falsely, and despite feeling confused, flushed and afraid. BRANDON SHIMODA is However, Portuguese is both more and less than the author of several books— all these things. It was—and is—a way to keep up including O Bon (Litmus with life in the form of drawing observations and Press, 2011), The Girl Without feelings on paper, and to give form to the energy Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), making up some part of memory. and The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008)—as well as numerous limited editions of collabora- tions, drawings, writings, and songs. Born in California, he has since lived in eleven states and five countries. Tin House Australia and New Zealand: People’s Republic of China: 2617 NW Thurman Street John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Everest International Publishing Services Portland, OR 97210 42 McDougall Street Wei Zhao, Director (503) 473 8663 Milton, Queensland 4064 2-1-503 UHN Intl [email protected] Tel (61) 7 3859 9755 2 Xi Ba He Dong Li www.tinhouse.com Fax (61) 7 3859 9715 Beijing 100028 email: [email protected] Tel (86) 10 5130 1051 Publisher: Craig Popelars Fax (86) 10 5130 1052 email: [email protected] Japan: Mobile (86) 13 6830 18054 Sales & Marketing: Nanci McCloskey Rockbook – Gilles Fauveau email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Exprime 5F 10-10 Ichibancho Publicity: Becky Kraemer Chiyoda-ku Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei: email: [email protected] 102-0082 Tokyo Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd. Japan 1 New Industrial Road Distributed in the United States by Tel (81) 90 9700 2481 Times Centre W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Tel (81) 90 3962 4650 Singapore 536196 500 Fifth Ave email: [email protected] Tel (65) 6319 9939 New York, NY 10110 email: [email protected] Fax (65) 6459 4930 Tel (212) 354 5500 email: [email protected] Order Dept. Tel (800) 233 4830 Taiwan and Korea: Order Dept. Fax (800) 458 6515 B. K. Norton Ltd. Mexico, South and Central America, Customer Service (800) 233 4830 5F, 60 Roosevelt Road the Caribbean: Special Sales (800) 286 4044 Sec. 4, Taipei 100 US PubRep, Inc. www.wwnorton.com Taiwan 5000 Jasmine Drive Tel (886) 2 6632 0088 Rockville, MD 20853 Canada: Fax (886) 2 2368 8929 USA Penguin Random House Canada email: [email protected] Tel (301) 838 9276 320 Front Street West, Suite 1400 Fax (301) 838 9278 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B6 Hong Kong and Macau: email: [email protected] Tel (888) 523 9292 Transglobal Publishers Service Ltd. Fax (888) 562 9924 27/F Unit E Shield Industrial Centre email: customerservicescanada@ 84/92 Chai Wan Kok Street penguinrandomhouse.com Tsuen Wan, N.T. Hong Kong United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, Tel (852) 2413 5322 the Middle East, Africa: Fax (852) 2413 7049 W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. email: [email protected] 15 Carlisle Street London W1D 3BS United Kingdom Tel (44) 20 7323 1579 Fax (44) 20 7436 4553 email: [email protected]

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